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Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon National Park: Arizona national park (est. 1919) protecting 278 miles of the Colorado River and a mile-deep canyon, homeland of 11 tribes, with about five million annual visitors.
Grand Canyon Skywalk
The Grand Canyon Skywalk is a horseshoe-shaped, glass-bottomed cantilever bridge at Eagle Point in Grand Canyon West on Hualapai tribal land in Arizona, opened in 2007 and managed by the Hualapai Tribe.
Grand Canyon University
Grand Canyon University (GCU) is a private Christian university in Phoenix, Arizona, founded in 1949, for-profit from 2004 to 2018, and the subject of a multi-year federal dispute over nonprofit status resolved in its favor by 2025.
Grand Cayman
Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean, home to George Town, Seven Mile Beach, and an economy built on financial services and tourism.
Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant
Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant, opened 1913 on the lower level of Grand Central Terminal, NYC, is a 440-seat seafood landmark with Guastavino tile vaults, a Whispering Gallery, up to 30 oyster varieties, pan roasts, and 100 percent employee ownership since 2012.
Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal, also known as Grand Central Station, is a commuter rail terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, opened in 1913.
Grand Chess Tour 2026
Grand Chess Tour 2026, eleventh edition of the elite chess circuit; six events in Poland, Romania, Croatia, and Saint Louis from May 3 to August 28, 2026; won by Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, who beat Fabiano Caruana 15–13 in the finals.
Grand coalition
Grand coalition (Große Koalition): a government coalition of the two largest parties in a parliamentary system, classically CDU/CSU–SPD in Germany (1966–69, 2005–09, 2013–17) and ÖVP–SPÖ in Austria, with formation logics and party-system costs.
Grand coordinator (xunfu)
The grand coordinator (xunfu, 巡撫) was a senior Ming dynasty commissioner sent by the court to administer a province, combining civil supervision, fiscal management, and often military command.
Grand Corps Malade
Grand Corps Malade, the stage name of Fabien Marsaud, is a French slam poet and film director who popularized slam in France with his 2006 debut album Midi 20.
Grand Coulee
Grand Coulee: ancient riverbed and largest canyon of Washington's Channeled Scabland, carved by Missoula megafloods; upper reach now holds Banks Lake behind Grand Coulee Dam.
Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete dam on the Columbia River in central Washington, the largest hydropower producer in the United States at more than 6,809 megawatts.
Grand Cross
Grand Cross, also called Knight or Dame Grand Cross, is the most senior class in many chivalric orders, worn as a sash over the right shoulder with a large breast star.
Grand Cross of the Iron Cross
The Grand Cross of the Iron Cross (Großkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) was the highest class of the Prussian and German Iron Cross, awarded only about twenty times.
Grand Death Lotto
Grand Death Lotto (死亡大乐透) was the working title of Jackpot!, Paul Feig's 2024 Prime Video action-comedy starring Awkwafina, John Cena, and Simu Liu, set in a California lottery where winners can be legally killed before sundown.
Grand design spiral galaxy
A grand design spiral galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a few long, continuous, sharply defined spiral arms that dominate its appearance, unlike the patchy arms of flocculent spirals.
Grand Designs
Grand Designs is a long-running Channel 4 British TV series, first aired 29 April 1999, in which Kevin McCloud follows ambitious self-build home projects; spin-offs include House of the Year and Grand Designs Australia.
Grand Diviner (Taibu)
The Grand Diviner (太卜, also written 大卜) was the chief of all divination officials in the Rites of Zhou, directing oracle signs, the three Changes, and dream divination for state affairs.
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Анастасия Николаевна Романова)
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova (Анастасия Николаевна Романова, 1901–1918), fourth daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at Ekaterinburg; Anna Anderson survival claims disproven by DNA testing.
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia
Anna Petrovna (Анна Петровна), 1708–1728, elder daughter of Peter the Great, tsarevna and wife of Duke Karl Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp; mother of Peter III and ancestress of later Romanovs.
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (Елена Павловна), born a princess of Württemberg in 1807, was a Russian grand duchess who helped prepare the emancipation of the serfs and founded the sisters of mercy.
Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia
Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (1882–1957), later Princess Nicholas of Greece, was a granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II and mother of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent.
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Великая княгиня Мария Александровна)
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna (Мария Александровна, 1853–1920), daughter of Tsar Alexander II, married Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1874, the only Romanov to marry into the British royal family, later Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (Великая княжна Мария Николаевна, 1899–1918), called Mashka, third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna; wartime hospital volunteer, Colonel-in-Chief of the 9th Dragoon Kazan Regiment, executed at Yekaterinburg in 1918, rehabilitated in 2008, with disputed DNA identification from the 2007 grave.
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia, born 1953 in Madrid, daughter of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, is the most widely acknowledged Romanov pretender to the abolished Russian throne since 1992; her claim is disputed.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (Ольга Александровна; 1882–1960), youngest daughter of Tsar Alexander III and sister of Nicholas II, was the last grand duchess of Imperial Russia, survived the revolution, lived in exile in Denmark then Ontario, and supported herself as a painter.
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Ольга Николаевна, 1895–1918), eldest daughter of Nicholas II, wartime Red Cross nurse and diarist, executed at Yekaterinburg in 1918, canonized in 1981 and 2000.
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna (Великая Княжна Татьяна Николаевна, 1897–1918), second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, Red Cross nurse at Tsarskoye Selo in World War I, executed at Yekaterinburg and identified by DNA.
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (Ксения Александровна)
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (Ксения Александровна), 1875–1960, eldest daughter of Alexander III and sister of Nicholas II, married Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and died in exile at Hampton Court, London.
Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden (Großherzogtum Baden) was a sovereign state in southwestern Germany from 1806 until 1918. Ruled by the House of Zähringen, it adopted a constitutional monarchy in 1818.